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VectorBase team members among the six 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge winners

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Tuesday, October 23, 2018 - 15:57

Six winners top the 2018 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge

Two first-place and four second-place recipients named in annual innovation competition to advance open science and open data for biodiversity

Second prize

Smart mosquito trap to DwC pipeline

Can smart sensors automate the capture of standardized time-series species occurrence data? For their Challenge entry, Connor Howington and Samuel Rund from VectorBase.org have developed a workflow for processing real-time time abundance data gathered by commercially available devices for remote mosquito monitoring. The routine starts with pulling data from the BG-Counter’s proprietary API, condensing, cleaning and processing it to align with the open Darwin Core format. Their proof of concept represents a timely first step in preparing standardized open data from smart traps, given that next-generation sensors in development analyze wing-beat frequency to provide accurate species-level identifications.

Housed at the University of Notre Dame, VectorBase.org is one of six Bioinformatics Resource Centers for Infectious Diseases supported by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health.

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This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. HHSN272201400029C.